🗞️DOJ releases Ghislaine Maxwell interview transcripts

August 22nd, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) began releasing the first batch of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents to the House Oversight Committee and released the full transcript and audio recordings of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell…Maxwell stated she never witnessed Trump do anything inappropriate and that she does “not believe” Epstein died by suicide…for the full transcript click here 

• The U.S. government has officially taken a 10% stake in Intel

• FBI agents conducted a raid on the Maryland home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton as part of a high-profile national security investigation into the mishandling of classified documents

• Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, spoke today and said the Fed may modify its policy stance in response to shifting risk factors and gave the strongest hint yet toward a possible interest rate cut in September…read more here

• The U.S. government has immediately paused issuing all new worker visas for commercial truck drivers due to safety concerns following a fatal highway crash in Florida involving a foreign driver

• President Trump said that Chicago will be the next city to receive a federal crackdown on crime, similar to what is ongoing in Washington, D.C.

• The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Michael Faulkender, is stepping down after less than five months in the role

• OnlyFans founder, Leonid Radvinsky, was paid over $700 million in dividends in 2024, a record payout ahead of the company’s potential sale, which could value the platform at around $8 billion

• Tesla has raised the price of its highest-end Cybertruck model, called the "Cyberbeast," by $15,000 in the U.S., the new price is now approximately $114,990, up from $99,990

• DOW up 1.89% / S&P up 1.52%

• Canada will remove many of its 25% retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods as a gesture of goodwill and to reset its trade relationship with the U.S.

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